I am performing in Other Pieces this week...

Other Pieces

Performance
(60 mins)

Thursday 7 October, 5pm & 7pm
in Clean Rehearsal Room at Central School of Speech and Drama as part of the Collisions PHD festival.

‘The art of jigsaw puzzling begins with wooden puzzles cut by hand, whose maker undertakes to ask himself all the questions the player will have to solve, and, instead of allowing chance to cover his tracks, aims to replace it with cunning, trickery, and subterfuge … despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game: every move the puzzler makes, every piece the puzzler picks up … every combination he tries … every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by another.’
Georges Perec – Life: A User’s Manual

Other Pieces is a game for two across time and space. As scenes from the lives of various strangers unravel and entangle themselves, audience members must complete a jigsaw puzzle laid out before them. Whole moments and memories are recreated for the individual with real urgency before the jigsaw image is solved and boxed, placed on a shelf and perhaps forgotten.

Directed by Rob Drummer
Dramaturgy: Luis Manuel-Campos
Scenography: Lauren Irving